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Morphing Images: Part 2 Potentially Hazardous Activity?

A Venture into Fantasyland, we explored the basic principles involved in morphing images. We also covered some of the different techniques and tools that can be used. Before morphing images, however, it is important to consider the dangers involved in altering the way that another person appears to the online world.

Amanda Grimm ·
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Morphing Images: Part 1 A Venture into Fantasyland

In an age when a race to remain on the cutting edge of technology ensues throughout the pathways of the Internet, you can be willing to bet that image morphing techniques are being implemented everywhere, and in every way.

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What Is Beauty? Golden Rectangles and Website Design: Part 3

We've ultimately explored the aspects of human attraction by questioning the essence of beauty and, in doing so have discovered multiple reasons why similar objects often score far apart from one another on a scale of relative beauty.

Amanda Grimm ·
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What Is Beauty? Golden Rectangles and Website Design: Part 2

So, what exactly is beauty? Last week in Part 1 we discussed the contributions of geometric simplicity, specifically as it applies to symmetry and the golden rectangle. We discovered that patterns which are easily recognizable throughout the natural world, and thus easily deciphered, tend to be more aesthetically pleasing to the human eye.

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What Is Beauty? Golden Rectangles and Website Design: Part 1

Is beauty a magical, wonderful thing, or is it based upon primordial instinct? Amanda Grimm from Adult Webmaster Consultants takes up the subject in this first of a three part series examining just "What Is Beauty?"

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The Cultural Implications of Color

Color contributes immeasurable beauty to the world around us. We are all very familiar with its different shades and tones, with the emotions that various colors inspire within us, with our favorite color amongst thousands, yet it is extremely difficult to define a color scheme that is considered to be "trendy" or "professional."

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